Koobiba vs Tonies, Yoto and other audio players
Little hands. Their own choices. Audio to grow with.
Koobiba brings together large buttons designed for children from age one and a curated audio library in development for their early years, with the option to add your family's own audio.
In development · Reservations open · Expected price €90 to 110
Why Koobiba
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For your child: large, direct buttons they can press themselves.
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For their growing world: planned stories, music and routines, and you change what's on the buttons as they grow.
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For you: audio goes on from your phone, no story accessories required, and your own recordings are optional.
How Koobiba compares
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* What it costs to replace five lost cards, figurines or chips at the vendor's retail price. Where the audio comes back without paying again, the table says "Content retained": Yoto, for example, keeps a lost card's title in your app and re-links it to a blank card. Koobiba has nothing physical per story, so nothing to replace.
** Price is what the vendor charges for the cheapest way to own the player, at list price, in its own currency. Some vendors sell the player alone; others sell it only in a set, and the note under the price says what the set includes.
Which one suits your family?
Koobiba or Tonies?
A Creative-Tonie holds ninety minutes, so your recordings do not cost €12.99 each — but they cost that once, and the figurine is the thing the child picks. Koobiba puts the same audio on three buttons, with no figurine to buy, and sends it from your phone without the internet.
Consider Tonies if you want a player on sale now, a large catalogue to choose from, and a child who will enjoy picking stories by figurine.
Koobiba vs Tonies →Koobiba or Yoto?
Yoto takes your own audio with nothing further to buy — a blank card comes in the box, and the Green Button holds twenty titles without one — but a child chooses by inserting a card or browsing a display, and everything reaches the player over the internet on a family account. Koobiba is chosen by pressing one of three buttons, and the audio arrives from your phone without an internet connection.
Consider Yoto if your child is three or older and you want a player on sale now, with a catalogue of over 1,000 titles and cards to choose them by.
Koobiba vs Yoto →Koobiba or Lunii?
Lunii records your voice through its own app, fifteen minutes a story, but cannot take an MP3 you already have, and everything else on it is bought from its catalogue; Koobiba plays both the recording and the file.
Consider Lunii if your child is three or older and you want a player on sale now, with one audiobook included and over 400 more to buy.
Koobiba vs Lunii →Koobiba or Faba?
The FABA+ set includes a blank Faba•Me, and a relative can record onto it from a link, so your own voice costs nothing extra — it just has to live on a figurine, and reach it through an account. On Koobiba it lives on a button, and goes there straight from the phone.
Consider Faba if you want a player on sale now, with a wide range of figurines, discs and a Disney line.
Koobiba vs Faba →Koobiba or Timio?
Timio plays its own discs and, by the vendor's own FAQ, nothing else; Koobiba plays whatever you give it.
Consider Timio if you want a player on sale now, with no app or account, and a child who will enjoy slotting in discs from a set of 25.
Koobiba vs Timio →Koobiba or Hörbert?
Hörbert is the closest in spirit — buttons, your own files, no account at all — and it loads from a phone too, through a web page on its own WiFi. Koobiba loads from its app, and family can record into it from anywhere.
Consider Hörbert if you want a button player on sale now, with nine buttons rather than three, over two hours of audio on the card it comes with, and no account at all.
Koobiba vs Hörbert →Koobiba or wobie?
wobie plays your own MP3s from a microSD card, offline and without Spotify — the card is not included, and you fill it at a computer. Koobiba sends the same audio from the phone in your hand, with no card to format and nothing to plug in.
Consider wobie if your family already uses Spotify and you want a button player on sale now.
Koobiba vs wobie →Koobiba or Tigerbox?
Tigerbox takes cards, has a touchscreen, and wants Wi-Fi for setup and for each card's first play; Koobiba has no screen and plays with the internet switched off.
Consider Tigerbox if your child is five or older and you want a player on sale now with a streaming library of over 30,000 stories and songs, by subscription.
Koobiba vs Tigerbox →Koobiba or Storypod?
Storypod sells Crafties, and recording your own voice means buying a separate recordable one; with Koobiba any recording goes straight on from the app.
Consider Storypod if your child will enjoy choosing by tapping knitted figurines, from hundreds of titles sorted by age; both versions were listed as sold out when we checked.
Koobiba vs Storypod →Koobiba or Kekz?
Kekz is headphones that read chips, and your own audio goes onto the chip that comes in the set, from a Windows PC; Koobiba is a speaker the room can hear, loaded from your phone.
Consider Kekz if you want headphones rather than a speaker, with a 63-minute story chip and a chip you can record on in the set.
Koobiba vs Kekz →Koobiba or Galakto?
Galakto plays magnetic tokens from its own catalogue, with no blank token to record onto; Koobiba needs no tokens at all.
Consider Galakto if you want a player on sale now, with no app or account and around 330 titles on magnetic figurines.
Koobiba vs Galakto →Koobiba or Storybutton Go?
Storybutton Go also plays your own MP3s from an SD card; Koobiba sends audio over the air from the app and takes recordings from family through a link.
Consider Storybutton Go if you want a player on sale now that arrives preloaded with ten ad-free series.
Koobiba vs Storybutton Go →Koobiba or Mighty?
Mighty needs a paid streaming plan to hold any music at all, and its own pages say Spotify support ends on 21 April 2027; Koobiba needs no subscription and nothing can switch its stories off.
Consider Mighty if your family already pays for Amazon Music and you want a player on sale now that plays its playlists.
Koobiba vs Mighty →Moving on from a player that stopped? What changes with Jooki · What changes with Ocarina
Do I have to find or record all the audio myself?
No: Koobiba is planned to come with an hour of stories, music and white noise, and a curated Koobiba Library is in development. Recording your own audio is optional.
What comes with Koobiba, and what is planned →A first audio player for your family?
Koobiba is in development. Expected price at launch: €90 to 110, confirmed closer to launch.